Typical isn't it.....For the last 9 years, since I started driving, I have always kept up to date with my tax, insurance and MOT, but last year I let things slip and paid for it. Quite literally.
I had to attend the International Sandcastle-building Tournament which was being held in Dagbad (!!). Short notice to go away and all the other pressures caused me to forget about the fact that the road tax would expire whilst I was away, so when I remembered, about 2 weeks after the tax ran out, I promptly got in touch with DVLA only to find that they had issued me with a =A380 penalty for failing to re-tax my car. Cheers!
Not that I'm bitter, but I know a guy who has no tax, mot or insurance and only holds a provisional licence and he drives around town every day of the week with his boy racer chums.
How come, after several phone calls to the local coppers and DVLA, he is still getting away with it whilst those of us who made a genuine mistake get stiffed with a fine??